Doctrine Analysis

This curriculum’s doctrine registry tracks 40 doctrines drawn from Romans 1-16, each recorded in full in doctrine_risk_registry.json with its risk tier, key terms, primary passages, and review routing.

Risk distribution

• Critical (8): Messianic Promise, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Grace, Salvation. All eight require human theologian review for every occurrence, because each has a fluent, culturally prestigious Buddhist or Brahmanic-royal substitute that inverts the doctrine.
• High (17): doctrines including Gospel, Divine Calling, Sanctification, Providence, and Universal Human Accountability, where mistranslation creates serious theological confusion even if it doesn’t outright invert the doctrine.
• Medium (12): doctrines like Apostleship, Faith, Adoption, and Church as God’s People, where a native speaker review is sufficient because the risk is reduced clarity rather than doctrinal inversion.
• Low (3): Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, and Christian Fellowship, cleared for automated review.

Why Incarnation is the single highest-priority doctrine

Unlike most other target languages, where “avatar theology” risk is an archaic or purely religious concept, Thai keeps it alive through the monarchy’s own royal title. This means the false-friend rendering (อวตาร) is reinforced by national civic culture, not just religious habit, making Incarnation the doctrine most likely to receive a fluent-sounding but doctrinally false translation if glossary enforcement lapses even briefly.

Why Lordship of Christ carries added social sensitivity

Because Thailand’s honorific register for the monarchy overlaps with the vocabulary needed for divine Lordship, and because Thai law treats disrespect toward the monarchy as a serious offense, translators must be especially careful that Christ’s Lordship is expressed with full theological force without appearing to make a claim about, or draw language from, the political sovereign.

Review routing summary

25 of 40 doctrines (all Critical and High) route to mandatory human theologian review; 12 Medium-risk doctrines route to native speaker review; 3 Low-risk doctrines are cleared for automated review only. See doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk_summary block for the exact counts.